Field guide · Dominican Larimar

The sea,
turned to stone.

Explore photographed Larimar specimens and the field notes used to describe their colour, pattern, form and condition.

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Copper Larimar

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Spectacular Larimar Palm Stone

29.3 g · 147 ct · AAA Top Grade

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From the mine to the gem

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New Latest episode · Episode 3

Why Is Larimar Blue? Vanadium, Iron and Light

Why copper was the suspect for decades, why the blue follows the vanadium, and how the fibres and the light draw the white waves.

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Episode 2 · 6 minutes 28 seconds · Cutting & polishing

From Rough to Gem: How Larimar Is Cut and Polished by Hand

The cut, the slabs, the shaping by hand and a six-wheel polish up to 14,000 grit, with no resin and no stabilization.

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Episode 1 · 8 minutes 37 seconds · Origin & mining

The Only Larimar Deposit on Earth: Hand-Dug, Deep Underground

From the air to the bottom of a working shaft dug by hand in Barahona, and Larimar in the rock, exactly as nature left it.

The Larimar mine, Barahona, Dominican Republic

Provenance

Region.
Records.
Evidence.

Larimar is associated with the Barahona mining district in the Dominican Republic. Our provenance guide separates regional context from the item-specific records that may or may not be held for an individual specimen.

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Field Guide

How to grade Larimar

Colour saturation

Record the dominant hue, saturation and consistency under stated viewing conditions.

Pattern & contrast

Describe the visible veining, contrast and pattern without turning a house category into a value guarantee.

Purity

Record staining, inclusions, fractures, repairs and treatments separately from colour and pattern.

“Even more blue than the pictures!!”

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Ask which catalog and supporting records are held for an individual specimen.

The sea, turned to stone.